Probably finally going through on that “I need to tell that Amber girl that her dad’s been trying to get back onto campus but security’s been chasing him off.” thing she mentioned a few days/a year ago (in-comic/IRL time).

He probably has to travel to and from the airport in a car. He didn’t specify what kind of vehicle he might be in should this event occur. Two car trips plus a plane trip are potentially over twice as likely for a crash to occur than just one car trip.

Dina is not afraid, but given Ruth’s violent, unpredictable temper, sher lack of fear underscores her disability interpreting other humans and their motivations. Or identifies her as a cold blooded badass.

My guess is, given what we know about Dina, she gets bored (maybe frustrated) with the slow pace of class, and goes off to learn on her own.
I imagine, and will state it as fact even though I have no evidence, that she only goes to class to:

Ah, crap. I just realized this is the point in the story where Amber and Ruth will echo Danny and Billie, but Willis being Willis, Ruth will become more furious when the reminder is brought up, and thus veer the ship further back into the storm.

It hasn’t been established that Dina has autism, so saying that autism is being used as a “character novelty” is inaccurate. It’s true that we have no real backstory on her right now, and I’m really looking forward to seeing it, but for now, I think that it’s best not to claim that Dina has any specific disorder until Willis explains it in the comic. All we can really say for certain is that Dina is very socially impaired and is a big fan of dinosaurs.

Yeah, as the father of two autistic sons, I’d really not have Dina formally diagnosed with that–granted mine were on the far end of the autism spectrum (totally nonverbal) still I’d rather not she be formally diagnosed with anything save PERHAPS Asperger’s. She’s socially clueless and obsessed with dinosaurs. Either could be a sign of Aspy’s, but not necessarily so.

At this point it’s less character novelty and more character *consistency*: this is the way Dina is and this is how she’ll act unless presented with a stimulus that prompts a different response. You know, like a creationist or something.

Ruth, as badass as I think you are, I sincerely doubt your ability to follow through on any threats made towards someone as totally unobtrusive and harmless as Dina. While you have no compunctions about handing an asshat his own butt or getting rather “insistent” that rules be followed, I have yet to see you actively bully or harrass someone who didn’t fall into those categories.

I think good is more likely, if they can actually open up to each other. Amber and Ruth have a lot in common, and I think they’d both benefit from a chat. And I doubt Ruth has any particular desire to get Amber in trouble for any of the stuff she’s done, nor do I think she feels any real obligation to do so just because it might be her job.

Of course, speculating that anything would be good around here always makes me imagine Willis rubbing his hands together and chortling in evil glee at my naïvety as he reads the comments.